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Old 2015.08.16, 07:00 PM   #1111
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Originally Posted by gekokujyo View Post
Didn't Ringo write this song, or am I missing something?
She wrote both lyrics and music.

What's wrong with show tunes?
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Old 2015.08.16, 07:13 PM   #1112
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Originally Posted by zeroryouko View Post
What's wrong with show tunes?
There was nothing wrong with them. For a long time, I really dug them. But... they're so DONE now, funny thing is, many people who hated on them before are warming to them this late in the game, it's kinda weird. Ultimately, I just really hope she drops the DIVA bullshit now. Surely she's over it after the fall?

Onto the real tour in Japan... fingers crossed there's some real fire in her peformances.
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Old 2015.08.16, 07:27 PM   #1113
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There was nothing wrong with them. For a long time, I really dug them. But... they're so DONE now, funny thing is, many people who hated on them before are warming to them this late in the game, it's kinda weird.
I was someone who wasn't into the showtune-type songs at the start--I personally don't like musicals very much at all, so it was difficult to get into them because of my own biases... but I started to like them once I saw how she was enjoying them :p she keeps talking about her cabaret and all of this too, so I don't think her "diva" persona will be gone anytime soon. I don't think it's weird to warm up to an artist's broadening musical style over time though idk what this forum was like when I guess many people (who are still posting?) disliked te sound...

Anyway, Kamisama, Hotokesama seems conceptually most related to the tour (parade of monsters) and her perf of it last night was pure fire IMO, so I think we can expect something great
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Old 2015.08.16, 07:28 PM   #1114
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Eh, if it were up to me, she could put out another album or two of them and I would be very happy. Then again I really like show tunes...
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Old 2015.08.16, 07:34 PM   #1115
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I think it's a bit reductive to dismiss all of those songs as just 'show tunes'.

Omatsuri sawagi is obviously very different from Onna no ko is very different from Shizukanaru gyakushu is different from Assassin's Assassin...

As long as she continues to surprise me with what she is doing within this 'genre' (if you can call it that) I'm cool with it.
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Old 2015.08.16, 07:41 PM   #1116
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I guess ultimately the exact moment my love of Ringo's showtunes/cabaret style stuff started dimming after I discovered



And heard the real potential this genre can live up to...

I mean. Holy fuck.

But I suppose this will happen for a lot of things in life.
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Weird. I was planning to order that CD this week.

My philosophy is, there's plenty of room at the top. I don't see why I can't like both Togawa and Ringo. One does not diminish the value of the other.
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Originally Posted by zeroryouko View Post
She wrote both lyrics and music.
Oh, sorry for the miscredit. Maybe I tend to associate Uki to their black-american genred songs. Doesn't help that I read the title as close to Otoko-Onna
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Originally Posted by waranghira View Post
Oh, sorry for the miscredit. Maybe I tend to associate Uki to their black-american genred songs.
Actually, that's Ringo's influence too. She is known to be a fan of Motown, especially Marvin Gaye.
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Originally Posted by zeroryouko View Post
My philosophy is, there's plenty of room at the top. I don't see why I can't like both Togawa and Ringo. One does not diminish the value of the other.
Try telling that to BITTER EX-RINGO FANS. I imagine them in a faraway place, lonely in their love for other artists, so desperate for attention they fan their farts across the way......

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